The ongoing audiofication of the 1961 debut season of the Avengers (a fair portion of which remain “lost” and wiped by BBC archivists decades since) continues with another volume of surprisingly serious-toned, small scale spying.

“They say the best conspiracies involve the fewest conspirators, but I’m not so sure. I think the biggest ones involve a lot of people, most of whom have no idea what they’re part of…and never live long enough to find out.”

“Of all the places in all the world, he just happens to walk up in Amsterdam?”
“It’s a small world…”
“No, it’s not. It’s an enormous one. Some people, even being on the other side of it isn’t far enough.”